{"id":5897,"date":"2021-11-15T00:05:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T22:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/?p=5897"},"modified":"2022-12-17T11:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T09:05:01","slug":"fire-an-abbreviated-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/fire-an-abbreviated-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRE: An Abbreviated Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5955\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/six-book-covers-for-tmr-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/six-book-covers-for-tmr-15.jpg 819w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/six-book-covers-for-tmr-15-600x612.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/six-book-covers-for-tmr-15-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/six-book-covers-for-tmr-15-768x784.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>BOOK-BURNING<\/h4>\n<h5><em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em>, Ray Bradbury (1953) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13079982-fahrenheit-451\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5899 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fahrenheit-451-ray-bradbury-13079982-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fahrenheit-451-ray-bradbury-13079982-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fahrenheit-451-ray-bradbury-13079982.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Popular sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury may have based his dystopian classic on book censorship and destruction \u2014 at least in part \u2014 on the Nazi Reichstag pyre of 1933 in Berlin, a blaze resulting from The Reichstag Fire Decree which \u201csuspended most civil liberties in Germany, including\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Habeas_corpus\">habeas corpus<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_of_expression\">freedom of expression<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_of_the_press\">freedom of the press<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_of_association\">right of free association<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_of_assembly\">public assembly<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secrecy_of_correspondence\">secrecy of the post and telephone<\/a>.\u201d None of these rights was reinstated during Hitler\u2019s reign, which ended in the Spring of 1945.\u00a0However, while book burning may have been a horror of the Inquisition and the Nazis, it continues to be a threat. For instance, in early November 2021, two board members of a Virginia school that called for library removal of \u201csexually explicit\u201d titles, said they wanted to see such books burned. <a href=\"https:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/news\/local\/education\/spotsylvania-school-board-orders-libraries-to-remove-sexually-explicit-books\/article_6c54507a-6383-534d-89b9-c2deb1f6ba17.html\">Commented<\/a> board member Rabih Abuismail: \u201cI think we should throw those books in a fire.\u201d Somehow one doubts Abuismail has read <em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/39507318-the-library-book\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5900 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-library-book-susan-orlean-39507318._SY475_-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-library-book-susan-orlean-39507318._SY475_-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-library-book-susan-orlean-39507318._SY475_.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Library Book<\/em>, Susan Orlean (2018)<\/h5>\n<p>\nAngelenos were marked by the 1986 fire that destroyed much of the beloved Los Angeles Central Public Library. But Susan Orlean was a new LA arrival and hadn&#8217;t known about the calamitous fire that shut down the city&#8217;s largest library for seven years, nor did she then know that this was the largest library fire in US history. When during a library tour she first learned of it, she immediately thought to herself, &#8220;I have to write this book.&#8221; In her non-fiction account, she describes the fire as \u201cfeeding itself book after book, a monster snacking on crisps.\u201d The fire reached 2,000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. Once extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remained: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library\u2014and if so, who? Orlean explores the possibilities, including the story of the prime arson suspect, Harry Peak. <em>The Library Book<\/em> reads like an edge-of-your-seat thriller.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>WILDFIRES<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h5><em>The Tortilla Curtain<\/em>, T.C. Boyle (1995)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/24731.The_Tortilla_Curtain\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5901 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-tortilla-curtain-tc-boyle-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-tortilla-curtain-tc-boyle-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-tortilla-curtain-tc-boyle.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Wildfires have been a threat and an inevitable aspect of life in California for years, a climate disaster captured in technicolor by T.C. Boyle in his 1995 novel <em>The Tortilla Curtain<\/em>, to terrifying effect. The threat of the wildfire in this narrative weaves through the lives of Californians rich and poor, white and migrant, auguring the even greater fires and resulting damage that have increasingly plagued the state as the planet heats up. Commenting in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ojaihub.com\/the-tortilla-curtain\/\">interview<\/a> on <em>The Tortilla Curtain<\/em>\u2019s continued popularity, over 20 years after publication, Boyle asks rhetorically, \u201cWhy has the book endured? Because of the hard sociological and environmental issues it takes on \u2014 and which remain unresolved. We are now seeing the effects of global warming, overpopulation, and the fight for resources globally. That\u2019s not going to go away until our species is decimated by war, disease, and famine. We are all one and we are all equally subject to the laws of nature and we are in deep trouble.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>FIRE-BOMBING<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h5><em>Slaughterhouse-Five<\/em>, Kurt Vonnegut (1969)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/4981.Slaughterhouse_Five\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5902 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/slaughterhouse-five-kurt-vonnegut-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/slaughterhouse-five-kurt-vonnegut-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/slaughterhouse-five-kurt-vonnegut.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<p>As a Wermacht prisoner of war during WWII, young Private Kurt Vonnegut survived the devastating Allied fire-bombing of Dresden by hiding away in a meat locker. Vonnegut and his fellow PoWs were imprisoned in an underground <a href=\"https:\/\/lettersofnote.com\/2009\/11\/18\/slaughterhouse-five\/\">slaughterhouse<\/a> known by German soldiers as \u201cSchlachthof F\u00fcnf.\u201d When the bombers finally relented and flew off, Vonnegut and other Allied PoWs were forced to help clean up. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/lettersofnote.com\/2009\/11\/18\/slaughterhouse-five\/\">letter<\/a> Vonnegut sent to his family from Germany after being freed from the work camp, he suggested that the fire-bombing had killed 250,000 people in 24 hours, \u00a0\u201cand destroyed all of Dresden \u2014 possibly the world\u2019s most beautiful city.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>SELF-IMMOLATION<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h5><em>By Fire<\/em>, Writings on the Arab Spring (2016)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/27070219-by-fire\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5908 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/by-fire-tahar-ben-jelloun-writings-on-the-arab-spring-self-immolation-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/by-fire-tahar-ben-jelloun-writings-on-the-arab-spring-self-immolation-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/by-fire-tahar-ben-jelloun-writings-on-the-arab-spring-self-immolation.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Although billed in English as one of the first pieces of fiction resulting from the Arab Spring, the subtitle &#8220;Writings on the Arab Spring&#8221; is misleading. Tahar Ben Jelloun\u2019s <i>By Fire<\/i> tells in imaginative prose the tragic true-life story Mohamed Bouazizi&#8217;s self-immolation in Tunisia, a horrible death that has been credited with setting off the Tunisian <em>thawra<\/em>. His novella shows us Bouazizi\u2019s frustration as a humble street vendor who is frequently harassed by the police. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/27070219-by-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goodreads<\/a> notes, &#8220;Ben Jelloun\u2019s deliberate ambiguity about the location of the story, set in an unnamed Islamic country, allows the reader to imagine the experiences and frustrations of other young men who have endured physical violence and persecution in places beyond Tunisia. The tale begins and ends in fire, and the imagery of burning frames the political accounts in <i>The Spark<\/i>, Ben Jelloun\u2019s nonfiction writings on the Tunisian events that provide insight into the despotic regimes that drove Bouazizi to such despair. Rita S. Nezami\u2019s elegant translations and critical introduction provide the reader with multiple strategies for approaching these potent texts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5><em>Things We Lost in the Fire<\/em>, Mariana Enriquez (2016)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/30375706-things-we-lost-in-the-fire\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5898 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/things-we-lost-in-the-fire-cover_enriquez-199x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/things-we-lost-in-the-fire-cover_enriquez-199x300.jpeg 199w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/things-we-lost-in-the-fire-cover_enriquez.jpeg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<p>In this collection\u2019s title story, a group of Argentine women light themselves on fire to protest a viral form of domestic violence. Reviewed in <a href=\"https:\/\/kenyonreview.org\/reviews\/things-we-lost-in-the-fire-by-mariana-enriquez-738439\/\">The Kenyon Review<\/a>, one learns that writer Mariana \u201cEnriquez spent her childhood in Argentina during the years of the infamous Dirty War, which ended when she was ten. Tens of thousands were tortured, killed, or \u2018disappeared\u2019 under circumstances later nullified with a blanket amnesty. Clearly these acts, and the concomitant economic instability and corruption, provide the earth for Enriquez\u2019s tales. She also comes from a tradition of Argentinian fabulists, beginning with the revered Jorge Luis Borges. Borges and his friends\u2014the writers Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo\u2014were so fond of horror that they co-edited several editions of an anthology of macabre stories. The blend of horror, fantasy, crime, and cruelty has a particular Argentine pedigree. This is not fantasy divorced from reality, but a keener perception of the ills that we wade through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Send us your recommended FIRE titles, to info@themarkaz.org, and we&#8217;ll share them with TMR readers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few staff picks in a very short list that could benefit from having us add your own fire-related titles. 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